The effect of Emotional Intelligence level on Quality of work life among Nursing Teachers

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Community Health Department Fayoum University

2 Community Health nursing in Obstetrics and Gynecological hospital. Ain Shams University

3 Psychiatric Mentah Health Nursing Departments Fayoum University

Abstract

Background: education staff’s emotional Intelligence has a vital role for all work with
student, especially nursing teachers because the presence of emotional intelligence improves the
quality of work life for nursing and patients Aim of the study: assess the effect of emotional
intelligence level and its relation to quality of work life among nursing teachers Design:
descriptive correlative study Setting: was conducted in Technical institute of Nursing, Fayoum
University at east of Cairo government Sample: Random samples Size: (53) nursing teacher
involved both genders working at the above mentioned settings. Three Tools of data collection
Structured questionnaire to assess A) the socio-demographic characteristics of nursing teachers)
an emotional intelligence questionnaire to assess level of emotional intelligence C) Quality of
work life scale to assess quality of work life. Results: more than two third of nursing teacher
were female and had Bachelor degree and low scores of emotional intelligence were associated
with low scores of quality of work life for nursing teachers But emotional intelligence
components were not significantly correlated in Intrapersonal part, Interpersonal part and General
mood but the quality of work life were significantly correlated in all items except Work
environment and relation and co-operation Conclusion: The positive significant correlation
between emotional intelligence with its components and the quality of work for nursing
teachers..Recommendations: Further studies should be carried out all teachers in different
school, institutes and universities and Designing training programs to increase the awareness of
teachers about emotional intelligence and their effect on quality of work life.

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